Page:Popular Science Monthly Volume 55.djvu/176

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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

log huts and hotels, and the purity of the open air to what was at least considered to be the polluted atmosphere of the stable city. It would be far from the truth to assume that this floating population

Dawson and Klondike City (South Dawson) in September, 1898.

was composed exclusively of men, women, and children; there were dogs galore, abundant by both presence and voice, horses and mules, and an occasional goat betrayed itself munching among hay-packs and the usual combination of simple and hard things which make